The old house needs new shingles on the roof.
那座老房子的屋顶需要换新瓦片了。
After the storm, several shingles had been torn from the roof and lay scattered across the front yard, leaving the wooden beams exposed to the rain.
暴风雨过后,好几片屋顶瓦片被掀掉,散落在前院各处,木梁暴露在雨水中。
在马修·阿诺德(Matthew Arnold)的经典诗作《多佛海滩》(Dover Beach)中,有著名诗句描写海浪拍打卵石海滩的声音:"Listen! you hear the grating roar / Of pebbles which the waves draw back, and fling, / At their return, up the high strand"——这里的海滩正是典型的 shingle beach。
纳撒尼尔·霍桑(Nathaniel Hawthorne)在《七角楼》(The House of the Seven Gables)中多次提及老宅屋顶的木瓦(shingles),用以象征岁月的侵蚀与家族的衰败。